The Washington men’s and women’s rowing teams will compete this Sunday at the 58th annual Head of the Charles Regatta. The Huskies will have a crew in each of the two marquee eights competitions.
Washington’s Nikki Martincic and McKenna Bryant won the 4,000-meter head race and later finished third in the 250-meter sprint to highlight the UW women’s rowing team’s performance Sunday at the Burnaby Lake Small Boat Regatta.
Last year, standout high school athlete Hallie Jensen had never rowed — but now she’s competing on the UW’s Division I crew team, thanks to the Hometown Huskies program.
When Washington junior Marley Avritt, the coxswain for the varsity eight, saw her crew fall to last in the six-team grand final of the NCAA Women’s Rowing Championships on Sunday, she figured something magical had to happen.
The Washington women have returned to the top of the collegiate rowing world as the top-ranked Huskies swept all three grand finals to win the NCAA Championship Sunday. The Huskies won what will surely be a legendary varsity eight grand final before earning victories in the second eights and the fours.
Washington’s men’s rowing team won the James Ten Eyck overall points championship for the 12th time in the last 13 years, but for the third year in a row, Yale took home the Intercollegiate Rowing Association national championship with a win in the varsity eight grand final Sunday at Lake Natoma.
You might not ever know what it’s like to compete in an eight shell, as the Washington rowing teams do. But you can train like the Huskies.
The No. 2-ranked Washington men’s rowing team returns to Lake Natoma in Gold River, Calif., for the 117th Intercollegiate Rowing Association Championships this Friday through Sunday, May 31-June 2.
The No. 1-ranked Washington women’s rowing team heads to Indianapolis this week for the 2019 NCAA Rowing Championships. The 23rd NCAA regatta will be held at the Indianapolis Rowing Center at Eagle Creek Park.